NT Power – Power Traction Converter

Solution

It is the result of a R&D partnership between Nomad Tech, EMEF (Portuguese Rolling Stock Maintenance Company), CP (Portuguese Railways Operator), FEUP (Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto), ISEL (Lisbon Superior Institute of Engineering), REFER (Portuguese Infrastructure Manager, currently Infraestruturas de Portugal), and it consists on an innovative low-cost and reliable upgrade of GTO-based electric power drives with IGBT components on the traction converter of the vehicles.